Courtney Love opens up while promoting her new book, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Courtney Love, 42, stopped by the Rolling Stone offices yesterday for lunch on a break from promoting her new book, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love.
Love compared her late husband’s manic depressive personality to Eminem’s, and said that her bizarre behavior on Pam Anderson’s Comedy Central roast was her lowest point. She even confessed that her rock-heir daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, 14, enjoys the music of Kelly Clarkson.
Here is more from her interview:
On taking drugs:
“Because I was given acid at four, I think my mind was freed.”
On her dad:
“My father was this shyster who would get money from the government to make LSD and bad LSD. Allegedly the brown acid at Altamont [Music Festival] was his. He can’t go to Marin County, because [name redacted] apparently has a hit out on him.”
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On whether she’ll tour:
“Yeah. I just won’t take off my top and stage-dive. I’m concerned about drinking…I’ll probably take a sober coach and have this guy that Orlando Bloom brings with him everywhere: David – he says that he would go with me. He’s this big Buddhist, you know, a lot of acupuncture. I can’t afford to fall off the wagon.”
On what she thinks about illegally downloaded music:
“In terms of new technology and downloading, I’ve barely been reading the news or listening to music…I just haven’t been paying that much attention. You know, I know we have a bad President.” [laughs]
On whether she’s still friends with former Nirvana bassist Kris Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl:
“I don’t know that that’s ever gonna work. I tried with Dave to have a lunch, and he didn’t want to…so we just kind of leave it where it is….you know, shit happened. Those guys disa-f-ckin-ppeared, and it’s been — 14, 12 — a lot of years. But they were gone. And it’s hard to get over that…With Kris, I don’t know if he’s going to run for Senate on the green ticket, making neutering cats a law…and I’m not putting down him as a human. I’m saying, he’s an eccentric guy and that eccentricity could go either way.”
On almost hitting rock bottom:
“[Before selling the stake] I’d saved $4000. We were almost ready to apply for food stamps.”
On selling her stake in Nirvana for $50 million:
“I sold 25 percent of [Nirvana] to a guy named Larry Mestel who’s been great, f–kin’ great. Some of his ideas are a little cheesy. The last thing we want is ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ selling this [gestures to a Diet Coke can].
But if you look at my daughter [Frances], and that’s who that music is for – that music is for her, ultimately – so if it ends up having to fuckin’ be sugar water, that’s what it ends up having to be. I pray to God it doesn’t, and I don’t think it’d be appropriate. But no one’s looking to sell Nirvana songs to Coca-Cola, we’re looking to the opposite: eco-friendly green cars, anti-Apartheid, you know all the things we value.”
Source: US Magazine
